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29Oct
2008

Display Meetings From Entourage Using GeekTool

I’ve been a recent convert to GeekTool, a Mac application that can be used to display the output of shell commands directly on the desktop. After going through the usual cool little GeekTool ideas of displaying process lists, system uptime, and the currently playing song from iTunes etc. I decided to do something that was genuinely useful for my day-to-day use ;-) (more…)

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Posted by Andrew Walker at 12:04am
14Oct
2008

How to convert PDT projects into PHPEclipse projects

If for some reason you decide to swap from one Eclipse based PHP IDE to another, rather than recreate the projects you can change their association, so that the project builders work correctly.

This is basically what you need to do if you get the following error when trying to ctrl clicka function:

“The resource is not on the build path of a PHP project”

To convert to a PHPEclipse compatible project you basically need to replace the buildSpec and natures sections of the .project file with the following:

<buildSpec>
	<buildCommand>
		<name>net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.parserbuilder</name>
		<arguments>
		</arguments>
	</buildCommand>
</buildSpec>
<natures>
	<nature>net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.phpnature</nature>
</natures>

If you need to convert the other way, or to something else, simply grab the appropriate section from a working project and paste it into the .project file you need to fix.

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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 10:12am
24Sep
2008

How to use special characters in FPDF

FPDF is a nice little library for php that allows you to create PDFs on the fly. It’s great for all sorts of document, amongs them invoices. Until you try to use say a pound (£) or euro (€) sign. Basically the library itself does not support utf-8, so the moment you need to insert anything extra into your document a conversion needs to be done.

To save you some searching and a masive panic attack here is the easy way to do it:

iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", "£");

You could also use the same command to do the whole text rather than just the pound sign itself. Example below:
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Posted by Joanna Chlasta at 12:45pm